GRADE

B

• Civil Rights laws have been passed and enforced by the government
• While the number of African Americans and Hispanics in the government is not near the percentage of population, the numbers are increasing every year
• We have an African American president
• African Americans vote at nearly the same rate as the average population, but Hispanics are much lower (average around 60% registering, African American 58%, Hispanic 28%)

• Encourage minorities to continue to become active in politics, possibly through schools
• Push for voter registration drives and voter eductaion in the Hispanic community, possibly with bilingual voting ballots

C+

• 71.4% of all white men had jobs while 66.7% of African Americans were employed in 2004.
• From 1980 to approximately 2012 about 36.8 million more whites will be working, while only 8.9 million more African Americans will have jobs.
• Unemployment for African Americans that are between the age of 16 and 24 has lowered.
• The average salary for all workers has increased from about $576 to $638.

• Although the work force for African Americans is increasing, white people still are gaining a higher salary, and control most of the work force
• The amount of whites with jobs compared to the amount of African Americans with jobs shows that white people have a much larger percent of the work in the united states.
• I think that work places should start to higher more African Americans, because even though more are being hired and treated equally there still is visible segregation.

B-

• In 2003, the overall whites that were receiving an education from ages 3-34 was 55,218,000, while the overall African Americans receiving an education from ages 3-34 was 10,971,000.
• Blacks had a higher enrollment rate than whites in 2004
• Almost as many Blacks graduate from high school as whites
• Blacks are 10% below whites in the number of graduates of college
• Almost same amount of whites have dropped out as Blacks in 2003

• Blacks are receiving more education and are no longer in segregated schools, but they still get much less education then whites though
• I think that teachers and the school board should focus on keeping kids in school and getting kids into school, so there is higher amounts of education for every race.

A

• In 1980, the average income for all house holds is about $17,000 but in 2004 the average increased to $43,318
• The average income for blacks has increased dramatically since 1980
• Hispanic income is at about $40,000 when in 1980 it was about $13,500